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Thu, Mar 2, 2023·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Minnesota Wild 2, Vancouver Canucks 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 75% of the time.

VAN winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN114111011236
VAN1601006122

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. P1 0:44MINKirill KaprizovAssists: Mats Zuccarello, Jared Spurgeon · Tip-in, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P1 14:03VANBrock BoeserPPAssists: Vitali Kravtsov, Conor Garland · Snap, 0.16 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:40MINKirill KaprizovGWGAssists: Ryan Hartman, Ryan Reaves · Wrist, 0.25 xG2–1
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 3:00MINConnor Dewar: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 5:11VANSheldon Dries: High sticking2 min
  3. P1 12:31MINKirill Kaprizov: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P2 6:55VANKyle Burroughs: Holding2 min
  5. P2 7:05VANElias Pettersson: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P3 2:17VANKyle Burroughs: Fighting5 min
  7. P3 2:17MINBrandon Duhaime: Fighting5 min
  8. P3 4:47MINConnor Dewar: Tripping2 min
  9. P3 7:31VANTyler Myers: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  10. P3 18:54VANJ.T. Miller: Holding2 min

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
49% to win51% to win
← MIN attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hartman won the faceoff against Aman
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINVAN
36Shots on goal22
4.7Expected goals2.9
66Shot attempts50
31Faceoffs won28
5Power plays3
11Penalty minutes15
20Hits29
18Blocked shots15
1Giveaways6
3Takeaways3

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestZuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov9:49

    xG 0.76–0.10 (88%)attempts 17–2goals 1–0

  2. Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy8:00

    xG 0.62–0.15 (80%)attempts 10–4goals 0–0

  3. Gaudreau – Greenway – Duhaime5:43

    xG 0.06–0.29 (18%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

  4. Reaves – Shaw – Dewar8:22

    xG 0.15–0.54 (22%)attempts 8–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGoligoski – Dumba14:15

    xG 0.76–0.48 (61%)attempts 16–13goals 0–0

  2. Spurgeon – Middleton16:54

    xG 0.70–0.67 (51%)attempts 22–10goals 1–0

  3. Merrill – Addison10:12

    xG 0.34–0.54 (38%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestDries – Kravtsov – Podkolzin8:06

    xG 0.52–0.42 (55%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

  2. Boeser – Garland – Dries2:01

    xG 0.15–0.16 (49%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

  3. Joshua – Studnicka – Aman4:55

    xG 0.09–0.21 (31%)attempts 2–7goals 0–1

  4. Beauvillier – Pettersson – Kuzmenko12:26

    xG 0.31–0.48 (40%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBurroughs – Wolanin9:38

    xG 0.52–0.38 (57%)attempts 8–9goals 0–0

  2. Burroughs – Hughes2:59

    xG 0.09–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Brisebois12:37

    xG 0.75–0.71 (51%)attempts 9–16goals 0–0

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

VAN 2.9 xGMIN 4.7 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

VAN's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line VAN is favoured, below it MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 32/100 · #972 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.16 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 75% of the time.

VAN winsMIN wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − MIN), 10,000 replays

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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).